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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Funeral rites"”.
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ANTYESTI (LAST SACRIFICE): FUNERAL RITES PERFORMED BY HINDU FROM WESTERN REGION OF NEPAL
… directed, produced and edited. It will cover the rites performed by people residing in the western part of Nepal. It will recount how the concept of making a documentary about the last rites came into my mind. </p>
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A Biblical and Missiological Framework for Cross-Cultural Mission: A Case Study of the Lobi Funeral Rites in Burkina Faso
… Adventists concerning their traditional funeral rites of passage. Some core elements of these traditional funeral rites, in which all community members are expected to fully participate, conflict with biblical teachings on the human condition after death.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>This …
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Liturgy and death : an examination of the pastoral and theological issues relating to funerals, with special reference to selected funerary rites
… of anecdotal evidence suggests criticism of funeral services. In a society where religious pluralism, agnosticism and non-belief are increasing, funerals are probably the most common occasions upon which people without formal (or informal) religious belief meet the services of the Christian …
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Creation Through Destruction: Artifacts of Worldbuilding in Experiential Legacy Games
… of various practices in their mechanics: fire, funeral rites, ancestral connections, generational knowledge, community-building, and more. The unique mechanism of “creation through destruction” emerged as the central tenet of memorable, meaningful legacy games.
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A commentary on selected passages of Statius, Thebaid 6
… climax of the Argive army’s stay at Nemea: the funeral of the royal prince Opheltes, who had been killed by the serpent of Jupiter in Book 5, and the athletic games held in his honour. This thesis contains a line-by-line commentary on the opening section, which gives an aetiology of the …
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The Culture of the Good Death in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City
… Death according to the arrangements of Baroque funeral rites, especially for the death of the Spanish Monarch and high colonial elites, called exequias. Protecting both their souls and family honor, they arranged detailed will and testaments, which included confessions of faith, paid masses for …
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Enlutados da pandemia: os testemunhos daqueles que perderam entes queridos sob o viés fenomenológico heideggeriano
… had a total prohibition or a huge impact on the funeral rites as the contagious rate was elevated in the worst moments of the pandemic. This study aims to comprehend the mourning experience felt by those who lost their loved ones due to the Covid -19. This Hermeneutic Phenomenological research is …
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Sheol and Pre-exilic Palestinian Burial Practices
Th. M., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1965 ; Made available through permission of the author
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Woven Into the Stuff of Other Men's Lives: The Treatment of the Dead in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland.
Atlantic Scotland provides plentiful and often dramatic evidence for settlement during the Iron Age but, like much of Europe, very little is known of the funerary traditions of communities in this region. Formal burial appears to have been rare, and evidence for alternative mortuary treatments is …
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Death and Ethnicity: A Psychocultural Study-Twenty-Five Years Later.
his study compares ethnic, age, and gender differences concerning attitudes and behaviors toward death, dying, and bereavement among Caucasian, African, Hispanic, and Asian American adult participants in north Texas with the results of a 1976 study by Kalish and Reynolds on death attitudes and …
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Contextualising deviancy: a regional approach to decapitated inhumation in late Roman Britain
The focus of the thesis is the poorly-understood rite of decapitated inhumation which was practiced predominantly in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD in Britain. Previous studies have often involved the accumulation of data on decapitated inhumations themselves and cross analysis of examples. …